Financial and marketplace evidence demonstrates that the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order is an absolute success, accomplishing its stated goal of preserving and promoting the online ecosystem’s “virtuous cycle of investment.” ISP investments accelerated following the vote. Investments in the edge, including those by online video providers and edge computing firms, are up as well.

Charter Communications announced plans to acquire Time Warner Cable in a deal valued at $56.7 billion. Charter also confirmed that it would acquire Bright House Networks, a smaller cable company, for $10.4 billion. These potential mergers won’t make Charter as massive as a merged Comcast-Time Warner Cable would have been but they raise similar public interest concerns, and the Federal Communications Commission should apply the lessons learned in its prior review here.

“So, are there any surprises?” That’s the No. 1 question we’ve been asked since the Federal Communications Commission released the text of its order reclassifying broadband access as a common-carrier service under Title II of the Communications Act -- the step needed to provide real Network Neutrality protections for Internet users. And after a close read, the answer is no.

Netflix agreed to pay Comcast an undisclosed amount to ensure that its videos stream smoothly to Comcast customers. But this is more than a deal between two giant companies: It will affect everyone who uses the Internet. And as with so many things involving Comcast, consumers will end up paying for it in the end.

Jan 20 marks the official commemoration of what would have been Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 85th birthday. I thought about the open Internet work that has consumed all of my waking (and sleeping) time these past few days, ever since the DC Circuit court handed down its ruling tossing out the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet rules. And I thought about it not in terms of what I’m working for today, but what the world will be like when my two daughters are grown.

In the wake of the big network neutrality announcement, it's time we got serious about the “R” word. And no, we're not talking about “regulation.” The future of the Internet as we know it today is all about “reclassification.”

Consumer groups, legal experts and tech reporters all recognize the fact that a court ruling left the Federal Communications with only one good option to keep the Internet open: reversing the Bush-era decisions that said Internet access networks were no longer classified as “common carriers” under the law. But in the scrum of responses since the ruling, a strange claim has surfaced among DC insiders.

In 1992, consumers were giving Congress an earful about their cable bills. A decade of deregulation meant cable subscribers had to fend for themselves in a monopoly market where cable TV companies abused their pricing power. Congress took up the cause and enacted the 1992 Cable Act, which noted in its findings that the “average monthly cable rate has increased almost three times as much as the Consumer Price Index since rate deregulation.”

AT&T has a sneaky plan. It wants to exploit a loophole in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s rules to kill what remains of the public telecommunications network — and all of the consumer protections that go with it. It’s the final step in AT&T’s decade-long effort to end all telecommunications regulation, and the simplicity of the plan highlights a dysfunction unique to the American regulatory system.

Free Press has written the Federal Communications Commission requesting the ability to review data collected by the FCC in connection with its periodic inquiry into the deployment of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans.

Free Press filed reply comments with the Federal Communications Commission regarding the national broadband plan. The filing offers evidence that refutes many incumbents' calls for continued deregulation and efforts to deter public interest action by the FCC.